Public Relations and the Making of Modern Britain – Stephen Tallents and the Birth of a Progressive Media Profession ( 2012 )

Tallents’ ideas and views of what became PR are well documented in Scott Anthony’s book Public Relations and the Making of Modern Britain – Stephen Tallents and the Birth of a Progressive Media Profession (2012). Anthony writes that previous opinions by some early UK PR academics that the practice of public relations was an American innovation largely ignores the great body of work that Tallents and others (Pick, Grieson, Gervas Huxley etc.) did in the interwar years in Britain.

Oxford Medical Publications. 1912.?The account given of gonorrhoea and its complications and of the other gonococcal infections given in this book is an excellent one. It is short, succinct and practical, and will be sufficient for the great majority of practitioners. Pathology, vaccine and serum treatment, and complications, both in the male and female, receive due attention.
The most modern methods of treatment are described with sufficient detail to enable the practitioner to adopt them, and guidance is given in the selection of methods, a guidance based upon the writers' large experience. We can cordially recommend the book.  Ltd. 1912. 25s. net.? The book is admirably adapted to the requirements of the medical student, for whom it has been written. It is divided into two parts, dealing with general and special and systemic pathology. The authors have endeavoured to make clear and intelligible what is known concerning the deeper meaning of morbid states,-and in so doing have certainly succeeded in giving a remarkably clear account of many abstruse subjects. The book is well illustrated by numerous engravings in the text, and also by eleven coloured plates. Sleeping Sickness. By Captain F. P. Mackie, I.M.S. Pp. 38. Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing. 1912.?The pamphlet gives a summary of the work done by the Sleeping Sickness Commission (1908)(1909)(1910), of which Capt. Mackie was a member. The Commission concerned itself chiefly with the question of sanitation and transmission of sleeping sickness by biting insects. Treatment, even if experimentally a success, is practically out of the question under the conditions prevailing in Africa. The reviewer ventures to consider that one of the most important results of this expedition is the observation that Glossina Palpalis fed on natives who have been treated with arsenic compounds and other drugs is capable of transmitting sleeping sickness (p. 27). Recurrent trypanosomes, after arsenic treatment, are often very virulent, and this fact emphasises the great danger which is involved in the treatment of thousands of natives with drugs which only cause a temporary disappearance of the trypanosomes. Such a mistake has been made by Koch, and is greatly to be regretted. Microbes  books may be read with advantage by the student of bacteriology. Of the two, however, Dr. Burnet's book will be found to be more suitable for those not engaged in active bacteriological research. While it is not by any means a text-book on the subject, as its name might imply, it nevertheless deals with the broad underlying facts of bacteriology, at least so far as we know them. It begins with a rapid bird's-eye view of organisms in general, and their place in Nature, and gradually leads on to the great problems of immunity. As one would expect, the " phagocyte " dominates this part of the work, but the writer is broad enough to state fairly the humoralistic theory. Vaccines and sero-therapy are also discussed. It has been exceptionally well translated by Drs. Scott and Broquet, and contains much that is stimulating and suggestive. It can be read easily by the practitioner whose knowledge of the subject is limited, and should certainly be read by every student. The second book, while essentially one for more advanced workers in bacteriology, is too full of " Wolff-Eisner." We should not like to place it in the hands of a " tyro," if we desire him to have a fair idea of the subject. Not that it is of little interest, for it is full of suggestions, but it is too one-sided. The author is possessed of the new idea of anaphylaxis, and he attempts to make the observed facts of infection and immunity fit this idea. There is much in the book that is open to discussion, for much of it is entirely without proof. For the advanced researcher it is to be commended. For others, however, the first-named book will be of greater value. ?9i2. 8s. 6d. net.?This is a popular, discursive, attractively-^lustrated sketch of bacteriology for the general public. It begins with a survey of the position and use of bacteria in Mature ; then describes bacteriological research methods, Jnfectious diseases in general, and the prevention of infection by means of disinfectants, immunisation and other means. X^ext special diseases are taken as examples, and the work finishes with a chapter on protozoa. The advantages of public health administration and a knowledge of hygiene are indicated lri the descriptions of small-pox and dysentery. Digressions are common. For instance, " Teetotal fanatics will not reach fieaven " (page 7), and the opinion that teachers should rank above the confectioners with their gay little tarts " (page 10) ; but surely the emphasis of the specialisation of bacteria, Particularly the parasitic species dangerous to man, would have been more in place. The spoiling of fine furs (page 132) "^0l-XXXI. No. 120. is a serious matter, but the use of formalin in foods is a more serious objection, though this has escaped the notice of the author. These are, however, details. The book is easily read, and cannot obviously give very detailed information. 1910. Price 25s.?We regard this work as one of the most important monographs on the subject that has yet appeared, giving as it does the completest information as to the history, causation, bacteriology, pathology, symptoms and treatment of this affection. There are several excellent points in the arrangement of the work worth noting. The index is most complete and thorough, the plates are numerous and clear, showing a high degree of artistic merit, while the arrangement of the bibliographical references is most careful, a complete list being given at the end of each chapter. No reference of importance is omitted, and the large number quoted makes the book invaluable as a work of reference. The author's style is easy and pleasant, and the print large and clear. Space will not permit of such a full consideration of the contents as is demanded by their importance, but we would commend specially for study the statistical tables given, and the author's remarks thereon. He produces good evidence to show that the seasonal incidence of puerperal infection is a fact the explanation of which is comparatively simple, but none the less of first-class importance, and that while air-borne infection is comparatively uncommon, yet climatic conditions have a most important influence on the cure incidence of the disease. He also rightly lays stress on the frequency of the occurrence of infection in cases of toxaemia of other than septic origin. This fact, well known as it is to obstetricians, cannot be too strongly emphasised. His account of the bacteriology is most illuminating, and his insistence on the frequency of mixed infections and the infrequency of pure ones a point that requires general emphasis. He does not consider that the work so far presented on serum treatment is sufficiently definite in its results to allow of this method being regarded as a specific means of dealing with the affection, but his presentation both of this method and the treatment by vaccines is most valuable and complete. He gives a lucid and full account of the different operative procedures required, and lays down one sound rule which may render the decision as to whether hysterectomy is called for or not less difficult than it usually is. His suggestion is that the puerperal uterus should be looked upon in the same way as the non-puerperal, and that just as we should advise and practise hysterectomy in the case of an infected fibroid, so we should adopt a similar course in the case of a limited local infection of the puerperal uterus. We can only say that any one who wishes to consult a work of reference on the subject will find no clearer or fuller information on any point he may wish to ascertain.

Transactions of the American Association of Obstetricians and
Gynaecologists. Vols. XIX and XX.
New York. 1906-7.?These volumes contain many interesting records of cases and discussions. Vol. XIX contains an interesting case and discussion of Porro Coesarean section during pregnancy in a patient in whom irrigation of the membranes with prolapse of cord, but without labour pains, occurred in a patient suffering from a fibroid in the lower segment of the uterus, filling the pelvis completely. Both mother and child recovered. Several similar cases were narrated in the following discussion, which contained several references to myomectomies performed during pregnancy. Papers on " Chronic Dyspepsia resulting Vol. XX, one by Raleigh R. Huggins on " The Toxaemias of Pregnancy" deserves notice The author, among other acute observations,^notes the liability of sufferers from pregnancy toxaemias to the development of septic infection in the puerperium, and also relates cases which throw some light on the curious cases of jaundice met with at times as a complication of the puerperium. Hayd relates the removal, with success, of a lithopedion from a woman aged 67. James W. West also in a paper on " When shall we Perform Myomectomy and when Hysterectomy in Uterine Fibromyomata ? " gives the pros and cons of the merits of the respective operations with great clearness, and also lays down distinctly the rules which should govern the treatment by operation generally. James E. Sadlier on " Consistency in Aseptic Surgical Technique " makes some rather pregnant remarks on technique and consistency Which will be found valuable. Edward J. Ill in a paper on The Conservative Medical Treatment of Salpingitis " presents a valuable corrective to those who consider operation the one and only treatment for inflammatory affection of the uterine appendages. He gives one or two valuable suggestions as to treatment, and also as to cases in which reinfection sometimes periodic in character takes place. The paper is one well worthy ?f study.
Gynaecological Therapeutics. By S. Jervois Aarons, M.D., ^?R-C.P. Pp.xiv.178. London: Bailliere, Tindall&Cox. 1910. 5s. net.?This little volume is written for the use of the general practitioner as a handy reference book, containing definite and l80 NOTES ON PREPARATIONS FOR THE SICK. concise directions for the treatment of those gynaecological affections which fall within his province, and as such should be warmly welcomed by him. No account of pathology or diagnosis is attempted, the work dealing simply with the question of treatment.
The result is that this book contains within small compass a collection of prescriptions, with practical hints on their use and the necessary instructions to patients, which must be most useful to anyone embarking on general practice with only the amount of knowledge and experience in this department acquired in the course of the ordinary curriculum. Particularly good are the chapters on affections of the external genitals and on constipation. The former furnishes the practitioner with a wide choice of remedies to which he may turn in those perplexing cases of pruritus, eczema vulvas, etc., which at times tax his ingenuity in therapeutics, while the latter contains most helpful advice on the rational treatment of cases of simple constipation. Some useful prescriptions will also be found on those pages dealing with dysmenorrhcea, but no mention is made of guaiacum in the treatment of this complaint, although some cases are very markedly relieved by this drug. The fact that this little book contains at any rate a summary of all the medical side of gynaecological treatment, serves to show clearly how essentially surgical this department of our art has become.